Baby boomers comprised a larger share of voters in 2024, accounting for 32%, but they are trending lower after hitting a peak of 36% in 2016.
Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial herself, expects the younger generation will soon tip the scales in American politics.
“Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids,” she said. “And we—that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.”
From global warming to debt crisis to lack of affordable health insurance (all intentional), Boomers have definitely overstayed their welcome.
I’m 48. I play in punk bands and just hosted an anti-profit folkpunk festival in the woods where 20 bands played. Am I also not punk because of some arbitrary line you have drawn?
When did I stop being punk? I’m dying to know.
Seems like some comments got deleted somewhere. But AOC didn’t mean Punk Kids as a movement, genre, or theme. It was simply the derogative punk. She could have said whiny, or drooling, quiet.
And your festival sounds cool. I stumbled across Defiance OH in Columbus a couple of years go. Been a fan ever since.
I was not replying to AOC’s comment but the ones in here that seemed to intimate that you can’t be old and still be punk.
If I read that wrong, that is on me.
I admire that. Good in you.
But yes punk spans boomers, X, and mil. Part of me wonders if it has a place in Z. It is sort of there - but my friends kids who present Punk are rather authoritarian on social issues and policy. On my side of the aisle - but their application is different.
Getting old sucks, but dont let folks rile you up so much that punk starts being a label rather than a movement. Punk is as punk does. Nobody needs credentials.